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The Senate, ignoring a veto threat from President Bush, presses forward with a $122 billion emergency war-spending bill that also sets a goal for pulling some U.S. troops from Iraq by March 2008. Opponents say Congress is trying to micromanage the war.

Millions of Chinese women bound their feet, a status symbol that allowed them to marry into money. Footbinding was banned in 1912, but some women continued to do it in secret. Some of the last survivors are still living in a village in Southern China.

Cultural institutions in Iraq have become key targets for insurgent bombs. And while a bombed-out book shop in Baghdad tells a grim side of the tale, the rebuilding of Iraq's National Library offers some hope.

Some wealthy Chinese are seeking a measure of protection by hiring private bodyguards. Businessmen have begun hiring female bodyguards for occasions where it can be awkward to have a man in the job.

We talk with the playwright and director of “Restoration Comedy,” a bawdy, romantic farce written in the style of the Restoration era.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. died of a heart attack Wednesday night. He was 89. Schlesinger's books included Robert Kennedy and His Times, the Kennedy administration chronicle A Thousand Days and The Age of Jackson.

After decades of success, director Martin Scorsese has his first Oscar. His film The Departed also won Best Picture. Among actors, Forest Whitaker was honored for playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, Helen Mirren for The Queen.

In central China, an elderly AIDS activist is preparing to travel to the United States to receive an award from an American non-profit group. Until Friday, the 80-year-old retired Dr. Gao Yaojie was under house arrest.

A climate of fear has settled over leading dissident intellectuals in Turkey, in the wake of the assassination last month of a prominent Turkish-Armenian writer. Ultra-nationalists have stoned churches, attempted hijackings of ferryboats, and chanted the name of the writer's killer at soccer games.

A federal grand jury indicted Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes and former CIA Executive Director Kyle Foggo today on charges of fraud, conspiracy and money-laundering. The indictments are connect